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Our civilization ... is not devaluing its awareness of the unknowable nor is it deifying it. It is the first civilization that has severed it from religion and superstition. In order to question it.
Andre Malraux
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Andre Malraux
Age: 75 †
Born: 1901
Born: November 3
Died: 1976
Died: November 23
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Georges-André Malraux
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Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
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Athirst for personal salvation, the West forgets that many religions had but a vague notion of the life beyond the grave true, all great religions stake a claim on eternity, but not necessarily on man's eternal life.
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The truth about a man lies first and foremost in what he hides.
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The basic problem is that our civilization, which is a civilization of machines, can teach man everything except how to be a man.
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In the realm of human destiny, the depth of man's questionings is more important than his answers.
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The truth of a man is first and foremost what he hides.
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What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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No one can endure his own solitude.
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If you can't make art, make your life a work of art.
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The crucial discovery was made that, in order to become painting, the universe seen by the artist had to become a private one created by himself.
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Between eigtheen and twenty, life is like an exchange where one buys stocks, not with money, but with actions. Most men buy nothing.
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In ceasing to subordinate creative power to any supreme value, modern art has brought home to us the presence of that creative power throughout the whole history of art.
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The great mystery is not that we should have been thrown down here at random between the profusion of matter and that of the stars it is that from our very prison we should draw, from our own selves, images powerful enough to deny our own nothingness.
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To understand what the outside of an aquarium looks like, it's better not to be a fish.
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Since 1789 history has had a new perspective, revolution being a successful revolt, and revolt a revolution that has failed.
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A break in the established order is never the work of chance. It is the outcome of a man's resolve to turn life to account.
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The thrill of creation which we experience which we experience when we see a masterpiece is not unlike the feeling of the artist who created it such a work is a fragment of the world which he has annexed and which belongs to him alone.
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Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.
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If man is not ready to risk his life, where is his dignity?
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In art, we are the first heirs of all the earth. . . . Accidents impair and Time transforms, but it is we who choose.
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